It began with a playful Facebook question in June 2010, “Would anyone be interested in a series of blog posts on ‘A Counselor Reflects on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis’?” The response was enthusiastic enough to persuade me to see where the idea led.
Those who know me well are doubtless laughing at my compulsive persistence. But has been an enjoyable exercise in slowly reading, reflecting on, and applying a classic Christian work. Here is the fruit of these three year’s worth of reflection.
- The Important of Our Disagreements
- The Positive Side of Temptation
- The “Deeper” Meaning of Being a Christian
- What Would a Totally New Morality Look Like?
- The Only Law We Can Disobey
- What Needs to be Explained?
- Good and Bad Desires Do Not Exist
- What Would Make a Devil of Us?
- “-Er” Requires a Standard
- What is the Point of Playing Football?
- Limits of Science: What vs. Why?
- We Have Inside Information
- Beyond Science: A Necessary Question
- Creative Evolution: The Best of Both Worlds?
- We All Want Progress
- Only a Person Can Forgive
- Goodness as Safety or Danger
- How Comfort Is Not Found
- Meaning, Darkness, and Eyes
- Simple Religion
- Good Things Wrong Methods
- Be Good for Goodness Sake
- Other Religions Not All Wrong
- Evil as a Parasite
- A Moral Civil War
- Disagreeing With God
- Made of Better Stuff?
- Putting Yourself First
- What Fuel Your Engine?
- Jesus Forgives Sin Committed Against Me
- Liar, Lunatic, or Lord
- Disabled Death
- Repentance Is Harder Than Eating Humble Pie
- It Takes a Good Person to Repent
- Humilitarian: A New Moral Diet
- Deity: An Unfair Advantage
- What Is a Live Body?
- Why Doesn’t God Make Himself More Known?
- Directions for Running the Human Machine
- If I Simply Belonged to Myself
- Living Beyond Seventy Years
- One Mark of a Bad Man
- One Good Tennis Shot?
- What Makes Heaven, Heavenly?
- Quacks, Cranks, and Moral Teachers
- How Christianity Works
- Who Would Like a Christian Society?
- The Twin Obstacles to Generosity
- Ally, Master, or Judge?
- C.S. Lewis on Sigmund Freud
- Courage and Illogical Fear
- God Does Not Judge on Raw Material
- Blame It On the Body?
- Choices Turn the Central Part of You
- The Momentum of Wisdom
- Chastity Versus Modesty
- The Most Unpopular Virtue
- A Bacon Strip-Tease
- Would Have Been the Best Sex Ever
- Moralism… C.S. Lewis… Permissiveness
- C.S. Lewis, Bulimia, and Pornography
- C.S. Lewis on Divorce
- Being “In Love” and Promises
- C.S. Lewis on Mid-Life Crisis
- C.S. Lewis on Two Kinds of Marriages
- Forgiveness, A Lovely Idea
- Forgiveness: If Received, Then Required
- Forgiveness Made Easier: Part I
- Forgiveness Made Easier: Part II
- C.S. Lewis on Loving Myself
- C.S. Lewis Meets His Murderer
- Loving the Unlovable In Me
- Invisible Vice
- C.S. Lewis’ Pride Evaluation Question
- C.S. Lewis’ Cure for Pride: Part I
- C.S. Lewis on Self-Respect and Devil’s Laughter
- C.S. Lewis on The Devil’s Cure
- C.S. Lewis’ Portrait of Humility
- C.S. Lewis on Temperament, Feelings, and Obedience
- C.S. Lewis on “Fake It Until You Make It”
- C.S. Lewis, Compound Moral Interest, and Spiritual Warfare
- C.S. Lewis on How God Feels About Feelings
- C.S. Lewis on Being Too Heavenly Minded
- C.S. Lewis on “Out of This World” Pleasures
- C.S. Lewis on Savoring Temporal Pleasures
- C.S. Lewis on Doubting Faith
- C.S. Lewis on Losing Faith
- C.S. Lewis on Sin’s Current
- C.S. Lewis on Jesus’ Full Temptation
- C.S. Lewis Says, “Punt It”
- C.S. Lewis Says, “Try Until You Realize You Can’t”
- C.S. Lewis on the Insult of Everything for Nothing
- C.S. Lewis on God-Saturated Human Effort
- C.S. Lewis Rejecting What Not to Write
- C.S. Lewis on Theology as Experience vs. Map
- 80’s Fashion Combat, Old Theology, & Domestic Violence
- C.S. Lewis Says, “Good Advice Is Over-Rated”
- C.S. Lewis on God as Father and Creator
- C.S. Lewis on Really Living
- C.S. Lewis on Losing/Gaining Myself in God
- C.S. Lewis on God-Saturated Prayer
- C.S. Lewis on a Community Vision for God
- C.S. Lewis on How God Knows the Future
- C.S. Lewis on God Listening to Prayer
- C.S. Lewis on Away from the Bible and Back
- C.S. Lewis on a God Infection
- C.S. Lewis on an Awkward Picture of Evangelism
- C.S. Lewis on Gospel Phrases
- C.S. Lewis on “What Could Have Been”
- C.S. Lewis on the Collective Human Race
- C.S. Lewis Warning for Two Party Elections
- C.S. Lewis on Pretending
- C.S. Lewis on Trying Harder with Better Teaching
- C.S. Lewis on Soul Rats
- C.S. Lewis on God-Fatigue
- C.S. Lewis on New Motives
- C.S. Lewis Says Christianity Is Hard and Easy
- C.S. Lewis on Bad Eggs
- C.S. Lewis on “Be Ye Perfect”
- C.S. Lewis on Masturbation
- God the Father: Easy to Please, Hard to Satisfy
- C.S. Lewis on Being Annoyed with God
- C.S. Lewis Insults, Exalts, and Humbles Me
- C.S. Lewis on God’s HGTV Show
- C.S. Lewis on Death Treatment
- C.S. Lewis on “If Christianity Were True”
- C.S. Lewis on “If Christianity Were True 2”
- C.S. Lewis on “A Gift to Who?”
- C.S. Lewis on the Gospel Paradox
- C.S. Lewis on a Balanced Personality
- C.S. Lewis on Being Alone with God
- C.S. Lewis on Dying Christianity
- C.S. Lewis Says “Christians ‘Need’ Less”
- Is There a “Jesus Personality”?
- C.S. Lewis on “The Real You”
- C.S. Lewis on How to Make a Good Impression
- C.S. Lewis on Looking
After all of this I did one final post looking back on 3 years of reflecting on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. It has been a great journey for me personally. I pray the exercise has, and maybe will continue to, bless others who care to take a slow read through a great book.